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How and at what stage in the article's development do I pay for immediate open access?
Contact your Authors should contact the Managing Editor to discuss open access as early as possible and before the authors sign the licence for publication form. (Further information for Managing Editors.)
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Gold open access articles will be deposited automatically in PubMedCentral and in other repositories, as determined by funder mandates, on behalf of the authors. Authors retain the right to deposit the article in other repositories of their choice or as required by their funder (see Including Cochrane Reviews and Protocols in Scholarly Collaboration Networks and Repositories for further information). A PDF of the final version, as specified by the Publisher, will be deposited.
Waivers and discounts
An author from a HINARI A or B country (www.who.int/hinari/eligibility/en/) who is the first author of a Cochrane Review, Protocol, or Update is eligible for a waiver for the APC, provided funding for the Cochrane Review does not include funds for the APC. Qualifying authors should contact their Managing Editor before signing the licence for publication form. (Further information for Managing Editors.)
Funders should contact Deborah Pentesco-Gilbert Gilbert (dpentesc@wiley.com) to discuss discounts, such as the block purchase of APCs.
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Authors continue to retain copyright and other rights, such as archiving in certain repositories and Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs), as stated in the licence for publication form, in return for granting The Cochrane Collaboration an exclusive licence for publication.
How will open access articles appear in the CDSR?
Articles with gold open access are identified in the CDSR with a logo 
and through text describing the selected copyright licence.
Articles with green open access are identified by a logo 
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What if my funder mandates different criteria for open access than those outlined above?
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Machine readability is one of the core components included in the guide. Contact Deborah Pentesco-Gilbert (dpentesc@wiley.com)), Publisher of the Cochrane Library, to discuss permission to crawl or access the article full-text, metadata, and citations, and the use of an API for this purpose.
*Note: The gold open access categorizations would change if published with a CC BY licence.
Figure 1. How open is it? Gold and green access in the CDSR
